Château d'Ecot-la-Combe

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The Château d'Ecot-la-Combe is a 15th century castle completely renovated at the end of the 18th century built on an ancient castle, located in the heart of the village of Ecot-la-Combe, on the banks of a river Sueurre, in the Grand East region of the Haute-Marne department. Private property, this "building with metamorphoses" bears the mark of the seigneurial families that have inhabited it from the 14th century until the end of the 19th century. The three wings of the castle with their towers, the facades and roofs of the porterie and those of the communes as well as the dovecote were listed as historical monuments on 25 August 1994.

History: From the 11th century to the 19th century, seven seigneurial families followed each other.

The first lords of the 11th / 15th century: Fief, dependent on Reynel County, the seigneury of Écot, occupied a strategic point on the border of Champagne County and Bassigny, moving from the crown of France and the duchy of Lorraine, which belonged to the Holy Roman Empire. It is therefore from the early Middle Ages that a "nominal villa Escaus" attested in 1172 and then a "meson of Escoz" is established at the meandering of a fishy river: the...